By: larry i remember myself visiting the New World in the mid and late eighties, trying out the air rifles, attempting to shoot out the light bulbs. I also had the chance to watch two basketball matches at the Gay World indoor stadium too, during the late eighties or early nineties… By: laokokok I’m impressed, you still have such good memories of it! By: algae Gay World is a ‘must visit’ for me and my neighbour during CNY back in the 60’s. I was staying at around Lor 12 Geylang Road. I have since lost touch with him, Ah Sin. His father owns an electrical shop and was also a projectionist at Palace Theatre at Katong. I watched my first midnight show at New Happy Theatre. To promote their upcoming show, the cinema will print synopsis of the show known affectionately as “kai chew’. I have to save my pocket money, 10 cents a day for 1 week just to have money to buy a 50cts ticket. I watched ‘The Ten Commandments’ at, was it New Victory? The one next to the shooting gallery. By: laokokok Hi YG, what is ‘lok lok’ stuff? By: yg when i was young, the amusement park i visited most was new world, followed by great world. remember going to gay world only when i started working. went there after our staff dinner when one of my ex-colleagues was ‘high’ after downing some beer. he booked one of those ronggeng girls and had his fun. in the 80s and evenup to the 90s, we used to go somewhere near gay world to eat the ‘lok lok’ stuff. By: laokokok Sad to say not many photos by locals of these amusement parks are found on the net. Also the reason for names changing from Happy World to Gay World and Gay World stadium to Geylang Indoor Stadium. By: fuzzoo I used to patronise the food centre at Gay World regularly in the mid-1990s for the very yummy “guitar duck” at one of the stalls. There was also a furniture store there selling cheap furniture you find at a typical HDB furniture store. By: Patricea Chow-Capodieci I remember very well having one of my tae kwon do grading tests at Gay World stadium. Can’t remember exactly which year but I started taking the martial arts in mid 91 to mid 93, so during that time. I remember thinking that Gay World was so run-down and badly maintained… By: Lam Chun See Correction. Of course we should NOT forget the Wonderland with Spore’s first roller coaster. By: Lam Chun See Thanks for completing the trilogy. James Seah had blogged about Great World at my blog and like you, I have also blogged about New World. I did not know enough about Gay/Happy World to blog about it. I think I have only been there twice. Once was in 1969 or 1970 when I went there to watch a basketball match between my school NJC and another. Another time was maybe in early 80’s or late 70’s to watch a kungfu match. Of course we should forget the Wonderland with Spore’s first roller coaster. By: The Singapore Daily » Blog Archive » Weekly Roundup: Week 13 [...] In Singapore - TOC: Cookie Boy waxes on Earth Hour-not, and Starbucks - Times of My Life: From Amusement Park To Cement Park - AngryAngMo: Singapore Is Really Strange - Can You Explain Please? - Dee Kay Dot As Gee: April [...] By: ordinary guy Very good presentation bring the readers from the past to the present. By: The Singapore Daily » Blog Archive » Daily SG: 2 Apr 2009 [...] Life, the universe and everything - My Game of Life: My first S-league match - AngryAngMo: The Complete Guide To Volunteering In Singapore - TOC: Cookie Boy waxes on Earth Hour-not, and Starbucks - Times of My Life: From Amusement Park To Cement Park [...] By: laokokok Thank you Victor. In fact I only came to know about it when I did the post on Sea View Hotel previously. By: matt This blog’s great!! Thanks . By: Victor Koo A very well-researched and interesting blog post, LKK. I didn’t know Mountbatten Road was known as Grove Road in 1941.